It's official all of us Whaler fans can get a plate and it goes to a great cause. The benefits to the CCMC would never have happened if we didn't have such a great Hartford Hockey fan base. We had more than twice the needed signatures and that's just proof to how many Whaler fans stepped up and put pen to paper and hit the bricks to get more to sign.
Nice Job Whaler Nation!

New England's Knowledge Corridor
https://www.facebook.com/WhalersBrigade/posts/810346459130130
This area makes the population 2.3M with its biggest city Hartford. The NHL has to be aware of this too and maybe why they've poked around the last few years.
Thus area goes from making us like Buffalo and Raliegh to comparable with cities like Denver and St. Louis.
Its measurably better